This book on W.B. Yeats' poetry aims to make the approach to his often difficult poems easier and shows their beauty. After a chronology and an overview of the historic context, the first part « At the origin of the work » studies the numerous influences: celtic, oriental…

W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is known as one of the best poets of his time. He is less known, especially in France, for his numerous theatre plays…

This volume covers the essential aspects of Yeats' poetry that is guided by a concern for unity. This quest is studied under two different lights: the search for dialectic identity of the nature and spirit…

Yeats, one of the greatest English-language poets, had never been the object of a long-term critical work in France. This volume fills in this gap, studying the poetic creation — at the same time the work created and the creative process…

According to Seamus Deane, Field Day addresses the issue of Irish identity in the context of the situation as a colonial crisis. He shows that religious sectarianism in Northern Ireland is linked to the interaction between the contrasting British and Irish stereotypes…

The short story, one of the most demanding literary genres by the concentration and limited effects it requires, attracted Irish writers because of its variety and the immense field it offers to imagination. It originated in the Gaelic folklore stories…

This collection of articles show Yeats' main interests. Ireland is there, both real with the Parnell affair that tore it all apart, imaginary with the esoteric world of druidic magic whose interpreting key is provided by an oriental background…

The stories that follow the Celtic Twilight and are located in real place of the West of Ireland, open the door on Celtic legends and mythology: magical world made of ghostly figures from hallucinations, world of metamorphoses…

Collection of literary, occult and political essays, Explorations sheds an essential light on Yeats' work and particularly on his brand new conception of theatrical techniques…